Top rated perfunctory movies that are also absolute classic
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and absolute classic movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and absolute classic, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
Last Update Apr 12 2021
1 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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- 1955-08-26 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
Rating
7.9
2 Romancing the Stone (1984)
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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- 1984-03-30 | Adventure / Action
Cast
- Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner
Rating
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6.7
3 Ran (1985)
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
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- 1985-06-01 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao
Rating
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8.1
4 Frozen (2013)
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.
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- 2013-11-20 | Animation / Adventure
Cast
- Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel
Rating
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7.3
5 Paths of Glory (1957)
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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- 1957-10-25 | War / Drama
Cast
- Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker
Rating
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8.3
6 Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called 'Underland,' she finds herself in a world that resembles the nightmares she had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens and knights, and frumious bandersnatches. Alice realizes that she is there for a reason – to conquer the horrific Jabberwocky and restore the rightful queen to her throne.
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- 2010-03-03 | Family / Fantasy
Cast
- Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp
Rating
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6.6
7 13 Assassins (2010)
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
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- 2010-09-09 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada
Rating
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7.3
8 Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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- 2015-11-10 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe
Rating
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5.9
9 The Dark Knight (2008)
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
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- 2008-07-16 | Drama / Action
Cast
- Christian Bale, Heath Ledger
Rating
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8.5
10 Gladiator (2000)
In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
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- 2000-05-01 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
Rating
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8.2
